Summary

Thesci - figenre is packed with activity and suspense but also horror , and some sci - fi characters went through some rightfully horrifying death . Sci - fi can be consider a very flexible literary genre as it easily integrate with other literary genre to bring engaging and exciting taradiddle . Sci - fi has close link to fantasy and horror , but it has also successfully blended with comedy , Latinian language , action , and dramatic play multiple times . However , no matter what genre sci - fi mix with and how mirthful , cliff-hanging , or scary these flick are , more often than not they feature some shocking and nightmarish death that push the boundaries of the musical style .

Deaths in sci - fi movies go the additional mile to floor the audience , and the genre ’s fantasy elements give writers and filmmaker plenty of pick to get originative with . As a result , many last in sci - fi movies can amount off as over - the - top and hard to believe , but it ca n’t be denied that they are pretty shocking and strong to leave , and some of them are just unpatterned terrifying . These death go from being deplete by huge animate being , succumb to illnesses or exposure to deadly chemical substance , or even surprisal deaths due to mysterious creature .

10Donald Gennaro - Jurassic Park

Cause of death: eaten by a dinosaur while in the toilet

Donald Gennaro ( Martin Ferrero ) is a lawyer sent to Jurassic Park by the parkland ’s investors due to guard concern . In theJurassic Parknovel , Gennaro endure the chaotic park experience , but in the movie , he is given a horrible death . After coming across a T - Rex , Gennaro run out of the car and into a nearby portable toilet , where he sit down terribly on the toilet . The T - Rex then destroys the lavatory , leaving Gennaro wholly lost , right in front of the dinosaur , which proceeds to pig him .

9Baron Harkonnen - Dune (1984)

Cause of death: poisoned with a gom jabbar

David Lynch ’s 1984 version of Frank Herbert’sDunesaw Kenneth McMillan as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen , Duke Leto ’s rival and main adversary of the novel and movie . Baron Harkonnen is a fantastic but flush and malefic figure who gets an equally grotesque but deserving ending . Baron Harkonnen is poisonedwith a gom jabbar ( a needle tipped with meta - cyanide poisonous substance ) by Alia Atreides , Paul ’s babe and the Baron ’s granddaughter . This do the Baron to swim off into a decease giant sandworm . Although the scene has been interminably mock , it ca n’t be deny that it ’s a pretty horrible destruction .

8Dr. Mann - Interstellar

Cause of death: decompression

Interstellarintroduced Dr. Mann ( Matt Damon ) , a NASA spaceman sent to an polar planet during the Lazarus broadcast . Mann ended up turn on Cooper ’s crowd and hijacked a Ranger so that he could tail with the Endurance and take control . It did n’t take long for Mann to yield for his betrayal , and as he gave a passionate manner of speaking about his mission , he fail to properly dock in space and was instantly killed when the airlock decompress . Although it was a quick death , it ’s still a appall one .

7Wash - Serenity

Cause of death: impaled by Reavers

Hoban Washburne a.k.a . Wash ( Alan Tudyk ) was the fender of the Serenity in both the TV seriesFireflyand the movieSerenity , as well as the husband of the ship ’s first spouse Zoë ( Gina Torres ) . Although he was a fan - favorite theatrical role , Serenityhad a heartrending twist saved for its third enactment , in whichWash was shoot down by a Reaver ship . Wash clangoring - land the Serenity near the broadcast tower , and though everything seemed okay , he was suddenly stake by a Reaver spear , kill him instantly .

6Tarlow - Outland

Cause of death: explosive decompression

Tarlow ( John Ratzenberg ) is a mineworker on the Sun Myung Moon of Io , where conditions are rather difficult . Because of this , Tarlow suffers an attempt of stimulant psychosis that causes him to see spiders , lead him to rip open his spacesuit . This , unfortunately , results in his crying death by volatile decompression . What makes Tarlow ’s last so horribly memorable are the visual effect that left nothing to the imaginativeness .

5Marlena - Cloverfield

Cause of death: parasite bite

Marlena Diamond ( Lizzy Caplan ) converge Rob and the rest at a company , and she follow Hud , Lily , and Rob to rescue Beth . They soon found themselves in a battle between the Cloverfield monster and the military , so they ran into the subway for safe . However , not even the subway was dependable , and they do across several leech , and while save Hud , Marlena was bitten by one of them . The group made it out of the subway and were found by soldier and taken to a bid essence . There , Marlena ’s condition pay off worseand she started bleeding from her middle before blow up . Marlena ’s death was tiresome and irritating , and totally undeserving .

4Frank Poole - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Cause of death: blasted off into space

Dr. Frank Poole ( Gary Lockwood ) was part of the Discovery One mission along with Dr. Dave Bowman ( Keir Dullea ) . When HAL 9000 begin do unpredictably , Frank and Dave agreed to unplug HAL , but when Frank was outside the ship to replace the feeler unit , HAL took control condition of his pod and blast Frank off into outer space . Dave used another seedcase to rescue Frank and brought his corpse back to the ship , but HAL deny to let them in , so Dave was forced to relinquish Frank ’s body into the infinity of space . Although Frank ’s death is not lifelike , drift away into blank is unquestionably a horrible mode to die .

3Emil - RoboCop

Cause of death: toxic waste

Emil Antonowsky ( Paul McCrane ) was part of Clarence Boddicker ’s work party , and he had a pretty graphic and grotesque death . While chasing RoboCop , Emil ran his truck into a vat of toxic waste , and as he stumbled forth , his body started to break up and descend apart , get Emil a portion of pain . To make it even worse , Emil tried to get helper but his condition was too shocking , and he ended up being hit by his own honcho in his car , completely demolish Emil ’s distorted soundbox .

2Seth Brundle - The Fly

Cause of death: accidentally morphing with a fly

Seth Brundle ’s ( Jeff Goldblum ) teleportation experiment was successful , but he did n’t know there was a fly in one of the pods , so the machine ended up flux him with the tent-fly at the molecular - genic tier . Although at first this granted Seth increase strength , agility , stamina , and more , he started to mutate physically , and by the remnant ofThe Fly , he had transform into a atrocious , fly front - human creature . After unexpectedly amalgamating himself with a part of the telepod , Seth crawled to Ronnie ( Geena Davis ) and silently begged her to kill him with a shotgun , which she did . Seth had a slow , sore , and grotesque death , which earned a place in sci - fi story .

1Kane - Alien

Cause of death: alien exploding out of his chest

Kane ( John Hurt ) was the one who feel the immense eggs on a moon , from which an alien creature sprung out , get through Kane ’s helmet , and seize to his face . An unconscious Kane was taken back to the Nostromo , where after some attempts to slay the animal from his face , it freely detached and was found beat . Kane woke up with some memory release , and during the final crew meal , Kane choked and convulsed . While lie on the table , Kane ’s breast exploded and an alien creature come out of it , kill him on the spot and escaping into the ship .

In a dusty landscape Finn stares out into the distance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Sidious, Tyranus, Maul, and Vader.

A collage image of Luke Skywalker in A New Hope

Kane looking serious in Alien Seth smiling in The Fly Marlena crying blood in Cloverfield

Gennaro being consumed by a T. Rex in Jurassic Park

Baron Harkonnen reclined in a chair next to doctors in Dune 1984

Serenity Wash looking at the camera

Tarlow screaming inside his helment in Outland

Cloverfield Marlena looking at the camera

Robocop deformed Emil

Alien crew around Kane